Lab No. 3

1. What wording used in a popular science article (magazine, website or newspaper article) Would lead you to believe it is based on a peer reviewed article? List 3 or 4 more statements below the example statement.

1)  The Ixil University did a research about.....
2)  National Geographic wrote an article about endangered species....
3)  Scientist turn to satellites to save Guatemala's Jaguars...
4) according to University of Colorado fired has consumed....
                                                  
2. Find a popular magazine, web site, or newspaper article

William A. Saturno, May 2012, Ancient Maya Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala, Science. (Internet). Available from: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6082/714

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 3. Find a popular article related to your country's ecology

Paradise Lost

 

This article is about a writer that visited my country Guatemala. He describes how he enjoyed and visited places that he never seen before. What I really like about this article is that he wrote all his adventure and at the same time he is describing each one of the places that he visited. Just to give one example the Atitlan Lake. It is one of the most famous like in Guatemala in its west side we can appreciate two wonderful volcanoes. This Lake is known as "El ombligo del mundo," translated it would be like the bellybutton of the world. Also Maynard wrote about how the culture is connected to the nature. His hiking experiences on Volcanoes in the highland side of Guatemala.

Source:

Joyce Maynard, May 14, 2012 Paradise Lost, Talk. New York Times. (Internet). Available

from: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/t-magazine/paradise-lost-in-guatemala.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

 

4. Find a peered reviewed article of a similar topic than the popular article to your country’s ecology

 

 

Scientists Turn to a Satellite to Save Guatemala's Jaguars

This article describes very detailed one issue that Guatemalan Jaguars have been facing. Since this article is from almost 10 years this topic has been more relevant this past years. The jaguar is very significant animal for our Mayan ancients. But these days the jaguars are losing their habitat. There are one of the endangered of extinction species. A team of scientists are hoping to manage this issue by using a Global Positioning System satellite to track the movements of these animals. I was very interesting in this article because I think and I want to save this unique Guatemalan specie in a certain point.

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Source: 

Reuters, May 22, 2005, Scientist Turn to a Satellite to save Guatemala's Jaguars, New York Times, (Internet) Available from:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/international/americas/22guatemala.html